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From: chad <cdalten@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python,comp.programming
Subject: A question about Python Classes
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
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Let's say I have the following....

class BaseHandler:
    def foo(self):
        print "Hello"

class HomeHandler(BaseHandler):
    pass


Then I do the following...

test = HomeHandler()
test.foo()

How can HomeHandler call foo() when I never created an instance of
BaseHandler?

Chad